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WOODHEAD, Joseph Edward
(Service number 70954)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	23/03/1893	Place of Birth	Temuka

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	C/o J. T. Brown, Temuka
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	J. B. WOODHEAD (father), Temuka
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Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	36th Reinforcements, C Company
Date	23 April 1918
Transport	Willochra
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Southampton, Hampshire, England

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Prisoner of War Information

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Labourer

Death

Date	24 February 1942	Age	48 years
Place of Death	Christchurch
Cause
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Memorial or Cemetery	Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch
Memorial Reference	Block 3D RSA, Plot 10
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Joseph Edward Woodhead was born on 23 March 1893 at Temuka, the younger son of John Blanchard and Susannah (née Uden) Woodhead. His mother died aged 25 when Joseph was just 18 months old. He attended the Temuka and Milford (South Canterbury) schools. On 25 December 1917 at St Peter's Church, Temuka, Joseph married Ethel Muriel Claridge.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [13 January 2017]; Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch, burial record (Christchurch City Council) [15 January 2017]

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